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Nutra Ingredients, a website about nutrition, included an article on Mar. 9, 2002 titled "Dairy Foods Could Lower Ovarian Cancer Risk," which stated:

“Women who consume a large amount of dairy foods may reduce their risk of ovarian cancer… Women with the highest intake of dairy products were 54 per cent less likely to be diagnosed with ovarian cancer than those who ate the lowest amounts of dairy products…

Women who consumed the most dairy products overall, including low-fat and skimmed milk, were the least likely to be diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Ethnicity had no effect on the results…

The [research] team explained that it was both the high intake of calcium and lactose that lowered the cancer risk. Lactose, the sugar in dairy foods, is thought to increase calcium absorption and promote the growth of bacteria that fight cancer-causing chemicals.”

Mar. 9, 2002